Articles by Grist staff

Pool's Paradise

Environmentalists and private landowners in Mexico struck an agreement last week to protect 7,000 acres of the Mexican desert, one of the largest private land conservation deals in the country, enviros say. The land on the edge of the Sierra Madre in the state of Coahuila, known as Ranch of the Blue Pools because it […]

The Sound and the Flurry

The Clinton administration is preparing to implement a flurry of controversial regulations on environmental and other issues before a new president moves into the White House on 20 Jan. The U.S. EPA alone is said to be considering more than 60 new regulations, including ones to restrict or ban the use of certain pesticides and […]

Banks for the Memories

Prince Charles yesterday opened the Millennium Seed Bank, which is intended to protect more than 24,000 plant species around the world from extinction. The $114 million seed bank in southern England — the largest such effort so far — will store millions of seeds in underground bomb-proof, flood-proof vaults, and house specimens of more than […]

If They Could Just Harness All That Hot Air …

While government representatives in The Hague quibble over ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Germans are making some real progress in adopting clean energy. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, home to 2.8 million people and numerous heavy industries, about 19 percent of the electricity is generated by wind, and in some areas of the […]